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Sara Gallagher was wrapping up revisions for "Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture" when Beyoncé dropped a country album. "Cowboy Carter" made a perfect epilogue for her new @OUPress book about Black artists remaking ideas of the US West. Available now!
Out Now! "Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture" by Sara Gallagher offers a unique perspective on the Black Western—its history, texts and moments in print and cinema, and the singular experiences of Black creators in the American West. oupress.com/9780806195438/…
Out Now! "Sins of Excess: The Spatial Politics of Idolatry and Magic in Colonial Mexico" by Anderson Hagler. oupress.com/9780806195636/…
Here's a talk I made based on our new book, "The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas." I address the Texas eugenics movement & the state's LGBTQ+ community at the Community UU Church in Plano, Texas last June 29. youtube.com/watch?v=uz3ce4…
.@GeekyPedagogy's new book, Snafu Edu, just arrived! I really enjoyed her recent interviews about the book on the Teaching in Higher Ed and Tea for Teaching podcasts, & I'm excited to dive deeper into the ideas she shared. Congrats, Jessamyn! 🎉 #HigherEd #Academia #FacDev #EdDev
This is a very moving and well-crafted novel that centers around the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building and which weaves together various narrative threads to explore the concept of aftermath.
A few more scenes from our event promoting “The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas.”
Scenes from our talk promoting our new book “The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas” at Interabang Books in Dallas.
The year was 1927. Just 35 years after the University of Oklahoma opened its first building, the Norman campus had expanded to more than 20 structures, including Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and McCasland Field House. At the time this aerial photo was taken, plans were already…
Just when you thought Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025) couldn't get any cooler, you find out that OUP author and @UofOklahoma professor Karlos Hill shows up in the end credits! oklahoman.com/story/lifestyl…
Why a local professor's name is included in the end credits of the hit movie 'Sinners' oklahoman.com/story/lifestyl…
If stylishly-written environmental history is your thing, the compulsively readable "Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels" by Jeff Manuel and Thomas D. Rogers is coming your way in October from @OUPress. (Acquired for the press by Joe Schiller).
Met some authors earlier this week at the place where they wrote their @OUPress manuscript—Aspen Coffee in Stillwater. Much of that writing at this table. It will be an Oklahoma book that has lessons for the whole country. Coming in Fall 2026!
Now that I have become an aged, desk-bound editor, I can't get much difficult reporting done, so I pray that y'all will support my new career as a book critic: texasobserver.org/texas-eugenics…
Out Now! "Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom" by @GeekyPedagogy is like a preparedness kit and gives teachers an educational “go-bag” of insights and strategies to have at the ready when things go sideways. oupress.com/9780806195469/…
Booknotes: Wesley Moody's "Hero of Fort Sumter: The Extraordinary Life of Robert Anderson" cwba.blogspot.com/2025/07/bookno… @OUPress
We know what we're watching this week! We also recommend you check out the 2024 revised edition of "Jim Thorpe: World’s Greatest Athlete" by Robert W. Wheeler that draws on spearheading the effort to restore the athlete’s Olympic medals. nytimes.com/2025/07/07/art…
A delightful place to come across a book your press published on display is a restaurant— That's Loretta Barrett Oden's "Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine" from @OUPress at La Luna @ La Fonda in Taos, New Mexico, which serves a menu using only pre-colonial ingredients.
Out Now! "Taos Society of Artists" edited by Peter H. Hassrick, Gerald P. Peters, and Melissa W. Speidel. oupress.com/9780806194943/…
What a wonderful episode of #TeaforTeaching! In this episode, @GeekyPedagogy discusses her new book, SNAFU EDU, which comes out July 15th and is available for pre-order. podbean.com/media/share/pb…